RE: File Restoration/Recovery

Chances are excellent, that you/oracle would not be able to
recover.
Oracle support might bring the super tool with the
swat expert for 5000 bucks an hour...and then
it might still be a mess. They would love you doing this
stuff..

A developer working on a Solaris 2.6 server running Oracle 7.3.4 desires
a nightly backup (by simply copying them to a backup directory) of the
datafiles of an active instance. I explain that it will be a waste of
tape because the files will be corrupt and useless. He counters, "As
long as these files are there, irrespective of their state, oracle [sic]
provides the tools to restore the skeleton database based on these
files."

Will this be the case? I understand that there will [most likely] be
some loss of data, but will Oracle "fix" itself to a point where it's
useful again? TIA

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